Dixie Chicks

[bamadude]

Yeah hard not to think about Emu... Very cute when small, can't imagine getting kicked though.
Bama your not worried about the differnt incubation times on those eggs?

Yes. It prob wont work and it wasnt my choice

 

[bamadude]

You going to eat them bama?

Doubtful at this point. I could but Krista gets too attached

 

[BriardChickens]

I am planning on lots of hatches this spring/summer. Some partridge chanteclers, cayuga ducks, ancona ducks, and I'll hatch out a couple of bronze turkeys.

The Cayuga hatches will be big as I am changing the flock into breeders, layers and meat. Chicken hatch: just enough for our own use, so I may want to keep an additional 12 after the hatch. I have a beautiful breeding trio of Partridge Chanteclers, years of work in those and meet standard.
I only have 1 female turkey, so will do 2 small hatches, maybe 5-7 eggs at a time. Males will be butchered, and I only want to keep an additional 2 females for eggs for the next year.

My Ancona's will require lots of work and am still hoping to import brand new blood into canada.

The Cayugas I just have to sort out and have lots to work with.

 

[hennible]

If you have two incubators, or if you can borrow one Bamadude you might pull it off. Just pull the eggs that pip at the 28 day mark and put them in the other bator... Or I've been wondering if a dry hatch could pull this off... The staggered hatch with just one bator that is. Anyone know?

That sounds awesome Briard, we will have to try shipping each other eggs at some point, after your settled.

 

[bamadude]

If you have two incubators, or if you can borrow one Bamadude you might pull it off. Just pull the eggs that pip at the 28 day mark and put them in the other bator... Or I've been wondering if a dry hatch could pull this off... The staggered hatch with just one bator that is. Anyone know?

That sounds awesome Briard, we will have to try shipping each other eggs at some point, after your settled.

Nope. One bator. There will be chicken eggs, khaki campbell, and muscoveys.

 

[perchie.girl]

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When I hatched out with my 1588 I had both Guinea eggs and Chicken eggs. I set them both the same time and when the chickens went on lockdown I locked down the guineas at the same time. Guineas go one week longer. I figured what the heck.

Only the guineas hatched.

I was reading up and turning the eggs wasnt neccessary after the first fourteen days. It was an experiment done by some college students.

The other option is to put in the longest incubating eggs first waiting till time to set the next and then the next then have lockdown at the same time.

 

[BriardChickens]

If you have two incubators, or if you can borrow one Bamadude you might pull it off. Just pull the eggs that pip at the 28 day mark and put them in the other bator... Or I've been wondering if a dry hatch could pull this off... The staggered hatch with just one bator that is. Anyone know?

That sounds awesome Briard, we will have to try shipping each other eggs at some point, after your settled.

Totally! By the time those girls start laying again I should have the groups set up and the right juices in the right girls So excited already about setting my incubators but i suspect that i won't have anything to incubate for at least a month after the move!

Bama, I'd set the eggs that take the longest first. Give them a few days head start provided the additional eggs are super "fresh". I'd also do a dry hatch.

 

[hennible]

Yeah when I do duck eggs I'll do them in one go, the scovy and the rest but I'll set my scovy first.

 

[bamadude]

When I hatched out with my 1588 I had both Guinea eggs and Chicken eggs.  I set them both the same time and when the chickens went on lockdown I locked down the guineas at the same time.  Guineas go one week longer.  I figured what the heck.

Only the guineas hatched.

I was reading up and turning the eggs wasnt neccessary after the first fourteen days.   It was an experiment done by some college students. 

The other option is to put in the longest incubating eggs first waiting till time to set the next and then the next then have lockdown at the same time.

I had ordered the muscovey eggs weeks ago. Then our flood drowned my isabelle leghorn male.
Then an isabelle hen laid her first egg. I have no choice but to try to incubate it. I hate having a lone chick hatch so I bought a few barnyard mix eggs. (Got my 2nd isabelle egg a few mins ago).
The lady with the Muscoveys said her daughter collected eggs early that morning and unknowingly mixed them with khaki campbell eggs.
She gave me a really good price because of the mix up.

 

[Beer can]

This spring the plan is to split a hova half and half sussex and giants. Giants take one to two days longer to hatch I've heard. Will that make it a pain in the butt?